AS FIGHTING INTENSIFIES IN CHAD, WFP EVACUATES ALL BUT KEY UN STAFF N’DJAMENA – In its capacity as the United Nations’ lead logistics agency, the World Food Programme has begun relocating all non-essential UN and NGO staff and their families from N’djamena and Abeche after security conditions deteriorated sharply in Chad this week.
WFP AIRDROPS FOOD AID INTO DR CONGO’S EMBATTLED KATANGA PROVINCE LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo – The United Nations World Food Programme said today it had started dropping food aid from an aircraft into violence-wracked Katanga province in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo – marking the agency’s first food aid airdrops outside Sudan since 1998.
WFP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LAUDS POPE BENEDICT XVI’S COMMITMENT TO HUMANITARIANISM VATICAN CITY – James Morris, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, today hailed His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI’s deep personal commitment to the service of the poor and hungry.